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In 1886 the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," a gift from
the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. Set at
the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the biggest
migration in global history. The inscription on the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Laza ....
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.... of freedom and opportunity. The immigrants came partly because Europe seemed to be running out of room. The population of the Old World more than doubled in the nineteenth century, and Europe began to generate a seething pool of apparently "Surplus" people. They were displaced and footloose in their homelands before they felt the tug of the American magnet. However, most of the immigrants came to the United States for economic reasons. In the late 1800’s, the agriculturally based economies of many European towns declined as a result of the Industrial Revolution. F ....
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